Skateboard
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Skateboard is a noun meaning (intransitive) To use a skateboard.
Meaning
(intransitive) To use a skateboard.
More Meanings
- (sports, recreation) A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot.
- (automotive) A skateboard vehicle chassis: A chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (i.e. batteries), forming the vehicular base; an instance of this format.
Example Sentences
She's been riding skateboards since she was eight years old.
A new crossover model will arrive next year and will be based on an existing skateboard.
In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
“Mentally, it’s hard to live here,” a teenage skateboarder named Konstantino told him. “So we skateboard to free ourselves and heal ourselves. We go out into the street every day, as if it were our medicine.”
Word Forms
- skateboards
- skateboarding
- skateboarded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include skate, surfboard, plank, board, self-defence, self-defense.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.